Amarok/Archives/Audio Engine Comparison: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:59, 13 December 2012

Feature Table

Engine	Actively Maintained	Crossfading	KIO-Streaming^†	Scope	Equalizer	Formats Supported
xine	Yes	Yes	HTTP only, with 1.1.4 smb	Yes	Yes	xine features
Helix	Yes	Yes in 1.4	http, rtsp	Yes	Yes	Lots, with Real almost everything^‡
NMM	No	No	No	No	No	Lots

^† this means streaming from any protocol (eg FTP, SSH, FISH, etc.), this is also required for AudioCD playback
^‡ yes, we really do mean every format known to man, yes even WMA

Engine Specific Texts

xine-engine

Can play using a selection of installed xine-lib output plugins, such as OSS, ALSA, aRts, or ESD.
Has gapless playback

Helix Engine

Supports native outport to alsa with current realplayer nightly builds and soon--realplayer 11. Now also supports direct alsa output even with realplayer 10.
Requires either Helixplayer 1.0+ or Realplayer 10.0+. Realplayer 10.0+ is recommended; Helixplayer is the same codebase as Realplayer, but without many of the more popular plugins (for example, no mp3 plugins).
Doesn't work on AMD64 platform (works only on i386 and SUN Sparc).

NMM-engine

Has video support.

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